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Composer of the Week: Copland

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Five decades of music by an American composer whose work vividly reflects the New World.
4: Urban anxiety and the wide open spaces of America were contrasts evident in Copland's music from the 1940s. The programme includes: a recording of Quiet City specially made for the programme by the Ulster Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley ; Leonard Slatkin conducting the St Louis Symphony Orchestra in movements from Music for Movies;
Copland himself with Leo Smit playing the piano duet Danzon
Cubano; and Leonard Bernstein 's famous recording of the suite from Appalachian Spring with the New York Philharmonic.
Repeated from last Thursday

Contributors

Conductor:
Vernon Handley
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
Unknown:
Leo Smit
Unknown:
Leonard Bernstein
Source: Radio Times

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